welcome back to fox 45 early edition. 5:30 is the time. i'm patrice harris. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig and see what we can expect as we head into tuesday. -- thursday, it's getting close to the weekend. we will feel the temperatures back into the 50s. that is good. the down side is -- it will be not as pretty as it was yesterday with more cloud cover

moving in actually today. >> you didn't want to give that part up. >> no, either that or i'm going to a new kind of change. i thought i went through that already a few years ago. >> you can always reinvent yourself. >> maybe i will go back to school. bus stop, 45 degrees, with mostly cloudy skies, west wind at 5-10 miles per hour, so not bad temperature wise heading out to morning. just a lot of clouds and the showers that we do expect to come our way will be coming here later on, western counties maybe this afternoon, but holding off for the evening. the rest of us all of that moisture is going to hold off and through here will take sometime to do that. it will move in the evening hours and sticking around through tomorrow morning and maybe into the early afternoon tomorrow before we clear out. today, 45 degrees, and starting out and 60 by noon. 53 at 6:00 p.m. after hitting a high temperature of 66 at 3 or 4:00 this afternoon. showers on the way later. i will tell you how much you can expect. right now here is lauren cooke to see what is happening on the

roadways with the traffic edge. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we do have trouble downtown. we have an accident involving an mta bus that is going to be on west fayette street at pearl street that you want to watch out for. as we check in and take a live look at the northeast corridor of 95. there's problems in this vicinity. it should be a smooth ride on the southbound lanes of whitemarsh of 95. if you're traveling on the outer loop lanes, from 95 to the expressway you're looking at an average ride of 55 miles per hour. you're looking at an 8-minute drive with an average speed of gower miles per hour. and -- gower miles per hour. -- 54 miles per hour. you're looking at an average speed of 54 miles per hour. patrice, let's send it back to you. 5:32 on fox early edition. a drastic budget plan is on the table to cut baltimore's

$121 million deficit. the mayor says that no one has been spared. megan gilliland joins us now with a look at those numbers. >> reporter: the proposal from the city department of finance came out yesterday. it is a plan the mayor herself is calling did he have satings,- did he havdevastating unacceptat must be down. the police and mountain units will be gone. 7 fire companies closed. 90 firefighters out of jobs, and 29 of the city's 59 recreation centers shutdown. the proposal cuts down on bulk trash pickups and dries up funding for the preakness parade and 4th of july fireworks. >> after we cut, make an assessment of what cuts we can with. if we can't live with those cuts to find a way to restore some of that funding. >> in order to raise revenue the mayor says they're looking into a profia tax on nonprofits, impa

fee on water and soda bottles and there's a talk of commuter toll or raising parking fees. the mayor is expected to present her plan on april 12th. meantime she and other lawmakers did turn down their automatic pay raises that were supposed to kick in yesterday. megan gilliland, fox 45 early edition. as megan mentioned the budget cuts could affect the public safety services. under the proposal nearly 200 positions would be cut from baltimore's police department. the fire department stands to lose around 100 firefighters and 7 fire companies would close. this is in the city that is among the deadliest in the nation. >> almost horrified, because the police have hard enough job as it is and the fire department. really those two things we have to find money from someplace to keep them here. >> the police department would also lose the only helicopter under the plan and the marines that patrol the inner harbor

would be eliminated along with the mowned unit. stay tuned with fox 45 morning news for the continuing coverage of this story. we will talk to former police commissioner ed norris about the public safety. that is coming up in the next half hour and the president of the fire union will be here to talk about the budget cuts. i will at this time sown with him durin-- i willsit down withe 7:00 hour. it happened at the corinthian lounge in wood lawn before 2:00, the victim is still in critical condition at shock trauma. anyone with information should call metro crime stoppers at 1866-7-lock up. >> a former doctor at the university of maryland medical center is expected to be in court today. clinton mccrack enis being tried on drug possession charges.

he arrested in september after the death of his fiancée carey john. he ordered what he thought were narcotics off the internet and john injected herself with the substance. she later died from what turned out to be an allergic reaction. a woman will plead guilty in an obstruction of justice in a murder for hire case. she is scheduled to be sentenced today but she is only expected to be sentenced to the 15 weeks she has already served since being arrested in december. sink was charged along with her son, clarence mayers of plotting to kill his former girlfriend. myers planned to kill her from prison while serving two life sentences for killing her daughters. the strongest witness in the solicitation case died with him.

the state senate gives preliminary approval to require anyone convicted of drunk driving to now use an ignition shutdown system. that system installed on cars requires drivers to blow into a device. if drivers below a blood alcohol content that is too high, the car will not start. a new amendment to that bill excludes anyone who gets probation before judgment from having to use thener lock system. mothers against drunk driving, says that severely weakens the bill since the vast majority of those charged with drunk driving receive probation before judgment. >> to us the risk there is how do you determine who yo your ret offender is. if you are going to let half of your first offenders walk, that's a risk we're not willing to take for maryland families. >> the bill is expected to pass later this week. a similar bill is still awaiting a vote in the judiciary

committee. there won't be any changes to the maryland death penalty law. right now, only dna evidence, a videotaped confession or video of the crime is allowed in such cases. we all know recycling is good for the environment, but who knew it was also good for competition. 39 neighborhoods across baltimore are seeing who can recycle the most with the winner getting a block party courtesy of the city. joel d smith is live in baltimore with details. so people are getting on board with this, knowing that they're getting a party at the end. >> reporter: yeah, it's working. they're getting more recycling and that is good for the city in a lot of ways. the recycling coordinate for the city tonya simmons. >> it is a revenue contract. in the first year of recycling in 2008, we generated $380,000 in revenue.

the markets took a hit in november of 2008. so we weren't making money for a while, but in '09, the end of the year we started to recover so we were getting in, we brought in about $22,000 in revenue. >> reporter: when you get people he can ited to d excitedu can bring more. we talk about how the proposals can affect the recycling department. >> from my bureau, the bureau of solid waste it can affect the trash pickup. >> reporter: that is where we will stop there. let's talk about winning right now and who is getting the block party. >> sure the contest leader is chess wald. they're in first place. and hambden is in second place. >> reporter: they still have time to catch up. it was going to end tomorrow and instead they have extended it a week because of the snow. a couple of places have a chance to catch up. >> do we know how many tons each

community is getting versus the other. >> reporter: patrice is curious. >> chess wall has .889 tons. seconds place is .85 tons. for those to put it in pounds. chess wald is leading about 1780 pounds of recycling. >> reporter: a lot of stuff and they have time to get more. it's going to get competitive at end. we will talk to neighborhood leaders as to why they're trying so hard. >> second place isn't that far behind. the second place folks can still catch up. >> reporter: yeah, it's about 20 of these. >> drink a lot of orange juice, then. all right, joel, thank you. >> reporter: all right. coming up on the early edition. feeding the masses. we have 7,000 people food for 30 days. >> how a mission of hope is helping the people of haiti survive. and we begin with temperatures in the mid-40s.

temperatures are going to climb into the 60s before we're done but there's rain expected in our forecast for later today and into the next day as well. we will talk about how much

welcome back. 5:42 on a thursday morning. there's showers on the way, but it will take a little time before the atmosphere saturates and we see it falling to the ground. what we see back to the west, a little bit of activity trying to make its way in our direction. a lot of the moisture will make it to the south and east. we wil see will see an increase. mostly cloudy skies, the winds are calm, 56% relative humidity and 30.01 holding steady on the barometer. it's a rather dry start for now. as i said the atmosphere is still dry and it has to saturate yet. 30 degrees is the temperature we begin in baltimore. down in salisbury, 39 degrees, hagerstown, 45 degrees there and as you can see, clouds are beginning to move in from the and west.

that will continue to be the case the head of the low pressure center that is going to be moving in our direction. that low pressure center will bring with it, a quarter avenue an inch of rain today and through tomorrow through the morning hours and then it will dissipate. we do see the temperatures climbing to 66 degrees for the high once again. the temperatures will cool down behind the next front which brings additional rainfall for tomorrow morning. by tomorrow morning, it moves out. high pressure moves in and we will be talking about the next chance of rain due to the low pressure center for sunday night into your monday as we get into the next workweek. we will have a jet stream dipping to the south for the weekend. while it will dry out after tomorrow, it will be a cold weekend with temperatures in the only low 50s for highs. warm air to the west eventually gets here and it will take sometime probably not until the end of next week. by the end of next week, we see the 70s in the forecast. if you're in the eastern shore, 68 degrees for the high, not bad there. south wind at 58 miles per hour and mostly cloudy skies turning

cloudy later. the winds will become more of a factor becoming breezy later in the day. 5-15-mile-an-hour winds in the central part of the state as we climb to 66 degrees. mostly cloudy skies for daytime hours, the showers holding off for the evening becoming more steady rain. again showers moving in there as well, a little bit early, mid-to late afternoon as well. tonight we do get the showers in the evening turning into a steadier rain overnight. 48 degrees for the overnight low so it will be mild for the 5-15-mile-an-hour wind. clouds on the increase as we go. 60 degrees by noon after starting in the mid-40s and we will get to the high of 56 or 3 or 4:00 this afternoon. we will back up at 66 as the showers begin to move probably holding off until 8:00 or later as it becomes more steady. look at the cold temperature for tomorrow, 51 degrees for the high then. overnight low, 28 degrees then

so the chill will be here. 52 on saturday for the high and 57 better on sunday showers return on sunday with a high of 58. 56 on tuesday, mostly clear then, and rebounding to 66 degrees by wednesday. maybe by the end of next week we will see 70s back in the forecast. fox 45 sky watch weather is available at your finger. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. can you use fox 45 powerful doppler radar. interactive tools will let you see when rain will be over your house. you can go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. lawrence cooke ilauren cooke isn for candace dold. >> reporter: you want to keep in mind that a shuttle bus is available from hunt valley to timonium. we're looking at 59 miles per hour at the we have side of the beltway. 559 traveling southbound on the

jf examine we're looking at 7 miles per hour on 95 moving through whitemarsh. we have an accident involving an mta bus that is going to be at west fayette street at pearl street. you want to use lombard as for the alternate route. it should be a smooth ride from 695 all the way down toward east fayette street. as for the tunnels all is clear for but the for mchenry and the harbor tunnels. as we make our way toward the top side the beltway, tf it was going to be a nice and easy ride as we take a look at the dulaney valley road. no problems to report along the inner or outer loop lanes. as we hop on the west side of the beltway, taking a live look at liberty road. no problems to report. cars are getting

as many as 3 million people were affected when the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck haiti in january. two months later it's difficult to assess how many people are still homeless, but it's believed to be between 1 and 2 million people. jennifer gilbert looks at mission of hope to help those without a home [ cheering ] >> reporter: from the hill top view of ppionville, it's hard to imagine this was once an exclusive golf course. [ cheering ] >> reporter: now haiti's elite replaced by 40,000 homeless. >> this is going to be a long-term effort on our part.

this has really crippled the country that was already, you know, very, very poor before the earthquake. >> reporter: the golf carts replaced by wheel barrels. >> the creeking of the wheel barrels, if i hear that sound, i know our flow is good. >> reporter: baltimore based catholic releaf serviced raised $90 million for haiti. today they're feeding the masses. >> we give 7,000 people food for 30 days. there's nothing better than that. >> reporter: food distribution runs like a well oiled machine. it has to. there's a thin line between control and chaos. >> so many people are -- 1 line.

>> we prefer to have women in line. women are very respectful, very calm. it's very, very, very tough work. >> reporter: 200-pound bags of grain, flour, peace and vegetable oil. food for a month for a family of six. >> it's not so bad for them here. they have a place to sleep and also here they're taking good care of them, giving them food and water. >> reporter: so when as many as 2 million people lost their homes in the earthquake, most had nowhere to go. and because tationville has food and water, the conditions here are considered the best in port-au-prince. >> we also say, let's not kid each other. this is camp life and this is not real life. >> reporter: the real question is what happens in a few weeks when the rainy season hits. that's a problem for more than a million people in haiti that are still living in tents. it's a problem at this camp in

particular which is situated on a hillside. mud slides could completely wash away what little shelter these families have. the long-term recovery in haiti is expected to take 3 to 5 years. but in the meantime. >>oil, oil. >> reporter: with month home. >> peas, peas. >> reporter: no homes, no schools. every day life is on the simplest of terms and for most families, it's about surviving until tomorrow. coming up later on fox 45 morning news, cuts to public safety. we talk to a former police commissioner about the mayor's proposal. but next, the or yool

good morning, everybody. here is the first look at sports. as the ravens prepare for the drafts they're looking to get better at every position. quarterback is no exepg. theexception.they have come up l way to workout joe flacco. they took flacco out to usc where he worked with a baseball pitching coach.

they focused on the throwing motion with special attention paid to muscles surrounding the shoulder. he is no novice to the this kind of training. yesterday we reported that the ravens is getting i patient with left tackle jarod gaither. an unrestricted ful free agent. meaning that anyone who signs him will have to give the ravens a first round draft pick. gaither wants a deal and his absence was a protest. protest over. on wednesday, gaither said he will join the workouts on monday. to florida, the orioles continue to play in a grapefruit league, brian matt tis to face the hot hitting st. louis cardinals. orioles up 2-0. he shoots one in the right field corner off of brian ma dis and

right behind him is jason larue, the game is tied at 2 on the 2 run double. on the bottom of the 2, felipe lopez sent another one off of matmatisse. and from first to score, giving the cardinals a 3-2 lead. the bottom of the 8th same score, this time he doubles to the gap in the right center. that is going to ride in rap pa port at 91. he is going to make the club. matisse allowed three rounds on 5 hits. his era this spring is 3.10. that is very good. the double and an rbi and the orioles fall at 8-14 this spring. they will host the yankees this afternoon in sarasota. meanwhile it appears that we will be seeing brian roberts very soon. he took batting and fielding practice again yesterday and

said he felt great. it's expected he will make the debut either friday or saturday. that word from b rob himself, roberts has had trouble with the back issue. he got an epidural last week and has been feeling steadily better. miguel tejada could be getting additional six months probation. last year he was sentenced to 5 years probation, and 100 hours community service tejada's probation was to expire today but he is still 40 hours short on the community service part. so it's an